Mr. Paisley joined Taylor Biomass Energy as the Vice President of Research and Development in August of 2005. He is internationally recognized as an expert in gasification technologies, specializing in biomass gasification. He is the inventor of the Taylor Gasification process and inventor or co-inventor of several other gasification technologies including the SilvaGas® process. Mr. Paisley was in charge of the initial development of a major biomass gasification process at Battelle Memorial Institute. Mr. Paisley served as the Vice President for Technology at FERCO Enterprises prior to his employment at Taylor Biomass Energy. Prior to FERCO, he completed a 20-year career at Battelle, and worked at Bituminous Coal Research and the Babcock & Wilcox Research Center.
Mr. Paisley has over 48 years of experience with gasification technologies and energy and chemical value recovery from fuel and residue materials. He has extensively published articles relating to biomass gasification and fuel conversion technologies. As an expert in the renewable energy field, Mr. Paisley authored the Biomass Energy section for the online Kirk-Othmer Encyclopedia of Chemical Technology.
He holds several U.S. and foreign patents on energy and material recovery processes. In 1998, Mr. Paisley was awarded the R&D 100 Award for the SilvaGas® gasification process.
Mr. Paisley is a member of the American Chemical Society; and AIChE; and the Biomass Energy Research Association. He served as a member of the Board of Directors for the Biomass Energy Research Association. Mr. Paisley is a Registered Professional Engineer who has been recognized in Who's Who in Frontiers of Science and Technology, Who's Who in the Midwest, and the International Who’s Who for Professionals. Mr. Paisley received his B.S. in Chemical Engineering from the University of Cincinnati. Graduate work in chemical engineering was completed at the University of Akron in Ohio.